City Primary Principles of Administrative City in Korea

Cities are not built simply for amusement, but to tackle external factors faced by societies and built based on theoretical arguments. In order to construct a city and develop it, we have to understand the grounds and reasons for doing so, and have to think through how to build a city that corresponds with what contemporary societies are looking for. Therefore, this study identifies the philosophical implications by reviewing theories and compares these implications with the Urban Charters, in order to propose processes of change for the philosophy of city construction. As a result, it was found that cities are based on ideas that correspond to the common values of the era, within a frame of areas and relationships, under complicated sociological, economical and humanities environments. The results are supported through case studies of urban areas, buildings and facilities in the Administrative City in Korea. This study is meaningful because it establishes philosophies of city construction by comparing and analyzing their charters with the sociological phenomena in the 20th century, and because its research target is the Administrative City to which the philosophy of the 21st century's has been applied since the beginning of the construction. We have to take different points of view corresponding to the changes and development of cities.